misentreat

English

Etymology

mis- + entreat

Verb

misentreat (third-person singular simple present misentreats, present participle misentreating, simple past and past participle misentreated)

  1. (obsolete) To treat wrongfully.
    • 1483, Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints:
      A clerke‥sayd it was not hones [] to mysentrete the holy body by vyolente hondes.

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